Winter evenings pastime: : consisting of a choice & extensive collection of riddles, charades, conundrums, and Scots proverbs. Well calculated "to set the table on a roar.".
Gunn, John,of Pitkeathly Wells, Perthshire,active 1809-1817,former owner.StEdNL: AB.1.215.89
Edinburgh: : Printed for T. Brown, North Bridge, by J. Moir, Paterson's Court.,
1800..
With a frontispiece plate.
With a half-title.
ESTC
Manuscript signature of "John Gunn, Pitkaithly [now known as Pitkeathly Wells, Perthshire]" at the head of the title page. Gunn is listed as a subscriber to an 1816 edition of the Poems of Ossian printed in Montrose. In an 1809 Perthshire directory he is listed as one owner of the "New Hotel Pitkeathly", and in an 1817 directory he is listed as a "vintner".
Riddles
Proverbs, Scottish
Scotland Edinburgh.